The California Department of Public Health, Injury and Violence Prevention Branch (CDPH/IVPB) and the California Department of Social Services, Office of Child Abuse Prevention (CDSS/OCAP)’s Essentials for Childhood (EfC) Initiative on Thursday, April 29, 2021, from 1:00 PM -2:30 PM will hold a webinar, titled, “Family Experiences During COVID-19 Pandemic Data Webinar.” The webinar will…
Read More »This week, the California State Senate and Assembly continued to convene policy committee hearings on legislative bills, as well as informational hearings on a number of subjects, including those related to COVID-19. The Legislature will convene again next week before taking a one-week spring recess during the week of March 29. Numerous CHEAC-tracked measures continue…
Read More »This week, the California Department of Finance (DOF) released its March 2021 fiscal update on COVID-19 direct response expenditures. The report provides expenditure assumptions and cost estimates as of this month compared to the Governor’s 2021-22 Budget estimate released in January. DOF estimates the state’s combined total costs for its COVID-19 response across fiscal years…
Read More »Governor Gavin Newsom and State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond on Thursday announced a new partnership between the California COVID-19 Testing Task Force and the California Department of Education (CDE) to deploy up to three million rapid COVID-19 antigen tests at no cost to support the safe return to in-person instruction for staff and…
Read More »To support the ongoing response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Biden-Harris Administration on Wednesday announced significant investments to expand access to available COVID-19 testing and treatments nationwide. Below, we highlight these announcements: COVID-19 Testing Expansion: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will invest $10 billion from the American Rescue Plan to ramp…
Read More »Today, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) announced that two million doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered to Californians in the lowest quartile of the Healthy Places Index (HPI), increasing immunity where the state’s transmission rates and disease burden have been the highest during the pandemic. With this equity metric met, the previously…
Read More »This week, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) issued two significant updates related to the Blueprint for a Safer Economy and COVID-19 vaccine eligibility. These announcements are detailed below: Blueprint Updates to Allow Additional Activities CDPH updated public health guidance in the Blueprint for a Safer Economy to allow for additional safe and sustainable…
Read More »On Thursday evening, President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. addressed the nation on the one-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic, commemorating the over 500,000 lives lost in the U.S. and outlining additional federal efforts to end the pandemic. President Biden detailed the following steps to return the nation closer to normal by this coming Independence Day:…
Read More »Yesterday, President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. signed into law the American Rescue Plan (ARP), an expansive new stimulus measure that will send out a third-round of stimulus payments for most Americans. In addition, the legislation, broadly speaking, will provide additional funding for the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), appropriates funding to closed restaurants and theater venues…
Read More »On Monday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued its first set of public health guidance for fully vaccinated individuals against COVID-19. The guidance is anticipated to be updated and expanded based on the level of community spread of COVID-19, the proportion of the population fully vaccinated, and the rapidly evolving science…
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